Artefacts of a
Burning World

Opinionated collection of 46 articles, films, podcasts and other artefacts related to the climate crisis.

Movie

Ocean with David Attenborough

By David Attenborough, Toby Nowlan, Keith Scholey, and Colin Butfield
Film still showing a metal scallop dredge with shells and other organisms being towed over a lifeless seabed
If we save the sea, we save our world.

Unlike Attenborough’s other films, which mostly celebrate the wonders of life’s diversity, Ocean (2025, 1 h 35 min) focuses on the devastating destruction of our world’s vital marine ecosystems. The film rightly addresses the main problem: overfishing and the fishing industry’s destructive techniques. The film advocates marine protected areas (MPAs), fishing techniques that do not involve discarding three-quarters of the catch, and highlights the importance of the ocean in binding carbon dioxide.